hmm i don't think i have complex personal issues, i am a bit of a loner but that is because i prefer my own company.
I don't think it requires councelling it is just a strange sensation having no emotion.
I also noticed a tendency that when i achieve a goal i experience more relief that happiness...

i belive it started with me surpressing emotions to get through things, then became harder to get rid of the longer i did it. till bout a year ago, some people "forced me" to care, after a while the emotionlessness began to go away.

i really dont know if its the same thing

anyway, the point is

do what you love, what makes you happy, its possible the best way to help your self

Why do you stand around agrueing about the existence of gods and the truths of man while your beloved world tears itself apart with hate, anger, ignorance and fear?

PETAs best weapon, and greatest weakness against hunting is their ingnorance. They can say whatever they want get people to support them.

When i graduated from college, I didn't jump for joy. I didn't even attend the ceremony.. Well, I just felt like ----- nothing...

It happens to me every now and then.

True, it could be because of physical or mental stress. Or maybe just you mood swing took a dayoff.

I'm not sure, I wanna know.. Have you experienced extreme mood swings? So happy today, so Sad tomorrow? something like that.

Yes I've experienced mood swings, but they are often a reaction to external events combined to how i'm feeling inside.

I have very strong emotions sometimes and actually feel emotions physically. Oddly enough I feel all emotions in the same place, in my stomach and solar plexus.
If the emotion is very strong it can be quite excruciatingly painful and sometimes make me physically sick, especially if it's an upsetting or distressing emotion.

I have tried to stop these sensations with thought control and relaxation exercises but to no avail once they have begun, that's it!

I will probably keel over & die with a heart attack one day!

I've asked other people if they feel emotion physically in their stomach like me, and some do and some don't. It's strange!

Absum! has never been bored in her life, but is becoming increasingly bored of the Science Forum! :?

Oddly enough I feel all emotions in the same place, in my stomach and solar plexus.
If the emotion is very strong it can be quite excruciatingly painful and sometimes make me physically sick, especially if it's an upsetting or distressing emotion.

I have tried to stop these sensations with thought control and relaxation exercises but to no avail once they have begun, that's it!

I treat those like sneezes. Don't stifle, rather, go with them. Hm... I've never met another who consistently sneezes with pronounced vigor two or five times in succession.

Sometimes I feel a sort of emotional burp. I think it's just the need to exercise the function, like... well, jerking off. It might feel like an involuntary giggle rising, out of absolutely nothing but accumulated potential. So, let it out.

Maybe you're becoming one of those big-scenario people where everything seems trivial in contrast to the manitude of lie and existence.

Or maybe you're becoming a vegetable. :P jk jk

*alexithymia is a condition related to an inability to express one's emotions as a result of not understanding them. Those who have the condtion usually appear very stoic and tend not to react in what would be considered a "normal" way, and they probably won't understand when others do react "normally."

Young people are susceptible to these kind of feelings because they are in a shelter as a child and even through teenage years. All of a sudden you are thrown into this dog eat dog world, and the only way out is to turn off to it.

The feeling of helplessness is the feeling that makes us angry. If we can't control something, or feel like we control it, we anger because we know it is something that should go our way. Usually that anger comes from feeling like you do actually have the ability to do something about it. I'm sure it comes from the old days in hunter gatherer times. Where we'd see people in stress, or someone hitting on your woman, or man. You see threatening towards your potential carried on genes, so use anger as a way to confront it. Sort of a fight or flight response I suppose. But when you are helpless and cannot do anything, either way. You are used to feeling pain, and you can't do anything about it, so you just turn off.

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe". - Carl Sagan